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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-0372 in the critical feed json

Parameters injection in SyntaxHighlight results in multiple vulnerabilities

published 2018-04-13 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-0726

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.3%
EPSS 11.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Parameters injection in the SyntaxHighlight extension of Mediawiki before 1.23.16, 1.27.3 and 1.28.2 might result in multiple vulnerabilities.

Patch / fix

  • mediawiki Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:1.27.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-0372

  • mediawiki Arch Linux 1.28.2-1

arch linux advisories AVG-259

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-0372 updated cvss 8.1

mediawiki: SyntaxHighlight extension allows injection of arbitrary Pygments options

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/mediawiki_syntaxhighlight)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • mediawiki mediawiki (SyntaxHighlight extension)

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.